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  • Mother Lynda looked even less like a "Lynda", and far more like a "Vulturine Blugspatter of Kraal": actually, Lynda looked the spit – I'm not being unkind here, just stating the facts, ma'am – the very spit of those crusty grumbly Mrs Handbag geezers Terry Jones enjoyed playing just that little bit too much with the Pythons.

    The Fairy Jobmother; Don't Stop Believing; The Cove 2010

  • Note 54: Jan van Schoor held the permit on Hendrik van der Wat's Gat from 1778 to 1790 (CA RLR 35: 116 4 Apr. 1787 – 30June, 1790, per L. Guelke data), and on De Caffres Kraal from 1790 (RLR 6: 231, 29 June, 1790, per L. Guelke data).

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • Thanks to Mosilager of The Warrier's Kraal, I discovered this really crappy, crappy quiz on the BBC website that 'tests' whether you are male or female by giving you a bunch of IQ test-type tasks and seeing whether you do better in the language-y ones or the math-y ones.

    I am woman, hear me empathise StyleyGeek 2006

  • Thanks to Mosilager of The Warrier's Kraal, I discovered this really crappy, crappy quiz on the BBC website that 'tests' whether you are male or female by giving you a bunch of IQ test-type tasks and seeing whether you do better in the language-y ones or the math-y ones.

    Archive 2006-12-01 StyleyGeek 2006

  • If you're still not having fun yet, Ranjit Warrier at The Warrier's Kraal is bound to make you laugh with his signs you are spending too much time in the lab or his post on what would happen if virologists could name movies.

    Archive 2006-08-01 StyleyGeek 2006

  • ‘The vows we take in the holy place bind us till we are purged of them at Inanda’s Kraal.

    Prester John 2005

  • Ben Kraal: making the ordinary » Blog Archive » Speech, context and seams

    Samsung’s P207 Speaks Out 2005

  • In their great battles a score is considered a heavy loss; usually they will run after the fall of half a dozen: amongst a Kraal full of braves who boast a hundred murders, not a single maimed or wounded man will be seen, whereas in an Arabian camp half the male population will bear the marks of lead and steel.

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • The villages are no longer moveable: the Kraal and wigwam are replaced by the Gambisa or bell-shaped hut of Middle Africa

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • Mothiba's Kraal, 20km from Pietersburg on the Pietersburg/Tzaneen road.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

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